Song Impact Quotes

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.

A pamphlet is usually read but once, but a song is heard over and over again.

When I finished performing 'I Won't Give Up' for the first time, I opened my eyes, and I think there was maybe six people in there when I started, and when I finished there was about 30 people, all standing around with their jaws dropped in complete silence. I said, 'Okay, I think this song has some power to it.' So coffee shops work for me.

There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there's certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious.

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.

Some directors ask for a hero introduction number, a duet and a fast number towards the climax. Most of the times, these songs only hinder the story.

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

A good song's a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people's lives.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

'What's Going On' is one of the greatest albums ever made. I definitely wasn't aiming to make my 'What's Going On,' you know what I mean? That album is definitely deep in my DNA. I've probably listened to that more than maybe any other album ever in my entire life.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fresh. But if it's not that, if the story is not what you get into, maybe it's the crowd response. You hit the first chords of 'She's In Love With The Boy' and 20,000 people start to scream, you're pretty motivated. You get what you need. And it's a great story. It works.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

I was telling people like 'My Dawg' gon' be the song that get me out there. I knew it.